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Version: 29Rating: 9Date: 2019-01-21Votes: 1

Score: 9/10

Pros:
-Ease of Install
-Robust software ecosystem
-Consistent, RHEL-like organization as a preview of what RHEL will look like in a few years.
-Regular Patch, update cycles.
-Rock solid as a mature OS, doubly so for an up-to-date distro.

Cons:
-Not as fast/optimized as Clear Linux(but what is?)

Fedora has been my go-to since v1. Works well on desktops, laptops, and servers.

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2019-01-20Votes: 2

I have tried almost every distro out there. openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Arch, Gentoo, Lunar, Clear, Puppy, Solus, etc. Even some BSDs. I thought I would never like another Fixed-release distro after trying Solus and Arch. Boy was I wrong.

Fedora is simple, beautiful, and up-to-date. It's stable, yet innovative. Unlike the one reviewer stated, I think GNOME is the best desktop out there currently, but the Fedora KDE spin is officially supported and great as well if you don't want GNOME. Codecs are not included by default, but getting them is easy (I use UnitedRPMs, some use RPMFusion, doesn't really matter). The new font rendering is great and works OOTB. I love Fedora, and I don't care who knows it!

This is for the workstation edition. I imagine the server and atomic editions are just as great!

Please give it a try!

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Version: 29Rating: 3Date: 2019-01-19Votes: 0

Why such a low rating? like ubuntu its now using the hideous gnome desktop. It's not the distros that are essentially at fault. Its the choice of a desktop format that so many think is so fab that drains your ram plays havoc with graphics and is more an encumbrance than a help., how to kill a distro ; bow to the mighty gnome.

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2019-01-15Votes: 6

Fedora is my go-to, and it is a solid option for those that want the latest software, but do not want to go to a rolling release. Fedora itself is updated every six months, it does not need or use PPAs, and most of the software in the repositories are up to date with all of the bug fixes, and Fedora trusts software creators and program teams, instead of holding newer versions back from users. That reduces the need for Flatpaks, Snaps, PPAs, or other workarounds. I am a grad student, and I can get things done with Fedora as a daily driver. It is solid and secure, and it installs via a GUI, and I have found answers within seconds online.

It is like a luxury sports car for your computer. It is a little more involved than an average car, but wow can it go places, and it can be tailored to your choices!

My laptop is a five-year-old HP 17"/ 8GB / 1TB / AMD A8 quad-core, and it runs Fedora 29 just fine. It is not the latest thing, but it works great. When I build my new desktop, it will run Fedora!

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Version: 29Rating: 9Date: 2019-01-12Votes: 0

When I came to fedora 29, its so hard to move to another distro. The only problem I have, the update repo list is so slow because i have slow internet connection (100Kb/s) and sometimes fail. I hope fedora can make it small or faster, like, just download list of updated package. 20Mb is to huge for my 100Kb/s connection

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2019-01-02Votes: 10

Fedora Gnome is one of my two go-to distributions (the other being openSUSE Leap KDE). Where KDE is excellent for larger hidpi screens, Fedora Gnome is superb for laptops. In my context (academia, humanities) the out-of-the box support of different languages is important, and this is very easy to set up with Fedora. In contrast to reviewers who repeat the old adage that Fedora is for developers and advanced users I would like to highlight how easy running Fedora has become nowadays.
In Fedora 29, Gnome software not only includes the activation of additional repos for codecs, language support, even Gnome extensions can be included from the software centre’s GUI. Flatpak support is excellent: two lines in the terminal install apps that formerly were hard to get running in a safe way. In short, Fedora 29 does an excellent job as a dependable all-purpose operating system. I have experienced only one minor glitch: the system is slow to shut down, because systemd appears to be slow to let go of the swap partition when swap is set up for hibernation; this does not happen when the user logs out before shutdown, a matter of two extra mouse clicks at the end of a session. Other than that: no crashes, no glitches, a near-perfect system.
In my view, RedHat should turn Fedora 29 (or the next version if Fedora 31 will indeed be delayed anyway due to innovation at the tool level) into an LTS version against a fee; I for one would be happy to pay for software like this.

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-12-29Votes: 9

trusted, secure. have it as a non-windows os in the office to do 'windows' stuff.
use to remote into our windows servers. Use to connect to our MS Exchange email services.

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-12-18Votes: 35

After a long time away from Fedora, I came back with the 29th release.
As time did well for this Distro.
This integration OS-Gnome-Flatpak is fantastic!

Long live to Fedora!

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-12-17Votes: 11

The distro is beautiful, stable and has a better performance compared with the old versions. The advantage with Fedora is the fast reaction to security updates. Unlike Debian or Ubuntu, Fedora publish the security updates short after they land in the kernel.

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-12-16Votes: 1

Fedora strikes a perfect balance between package newness and extreme reliability. Moreover, in-place release upgrades have been trouble-free for years now.

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-12-13Votes: 2

Fedora 29 Cinnamon work great

Pros:
Fast, stable, BE , 3ºparty easy to use

cons:
Applets dont work always crash DE

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-12-10Votes: 23

Fedora 29 feels great! I have started using Fedora very recently and so far so good! Need some minimal knowledge to understand what Linux is in order to use Fedora. IMHO once you use Fedora for a couple of weeks, you will totally love it and will keep using it for good.

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Version: 29Rating: 7Date: 2018-12-06Votes: 2

It's certainly an interesting distro, but there are a few things that I just don't like about it. Overall, it is not very stable, once in a while some update will brake something. I think being bleeding edge is cool, but if I really wanted bleeding edge i think both Debian unstable or Arch, being rolling releases, would be better choices. But being a point release distro, i find it anoying to have to upgrade every 6 months. For a point release i would prefer either Ubuntu LTS or Debian stable, so I can keep the distro version as long as possible before upgrading (well... reinstalling). Also, this version and all the previous i have tried take longer time than i like to bootup and really eat my resources (especially gnome version; xfce doesn't eat much, but does better in both Arch and Debian, and even Xubuntu). So, at least to me, Fedora does not fill any gap; there's always another major distro doing the job better.

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-12-06Votes: 23

Being just-shy of actual bleeding-edge, I've found the driver/kernel track used by Fedora to be plenty stable for an at-work desktop machine, while still providing current versions of the tools I use in the C++ and Python development stack and also with Gnome, QEMU and docker among several others. This is my preferred desktop operating system (work and home) and my favorite linux distribution. I particularly like the Fedora -> CentOS -> RedHat relationship and the compatibility between them.

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Version: 29Rating: 8Date: 2018-12-04Votes: 1

As a first time Linux user, I was astonished with its capabilities. :)

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Version: 29Rating: 6Date: 2018-11-29Votes: 0

It's just not...quite right.

I'm a weird case. I have a Dell XPS 9650 laptop. My discreet GPU and hibernate is hard to support (hardware wise). There was no out of the box experience without troubleshooting first. I had to tinker with the kernel modules to get it to boot properly.

DNF is slow. You can tweak this in the configs (adding DRPM, etc), but it doesn't work consistently as expected after the fact.

Software (RPM) support seems very, very spotty for F29. Virtualbox and Docker support require hacking to get working near current. I feel like the Fedora release cycle may be a bit too ambitious. All of this in mind, it is a testing bed for RHEL. A testing bed I'll either stay 1 release behind on, or perhaps move on.

I really feel like Fedora is trying to be a lot better than it actually is, maybe it'll be more comfortable in later releases.

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Version: 29Rating: 1Date: 2018-11-29Votes: 1

Some cons:

1. It's Red Hat testing distro. Thanks, but I do not want to be their guinea pig.
2. Support period is just too small, only 13 months?
3. It has an excessive amount of updates which makes it less trusteable. I mean, more instable.
4. It doesn't have a good appearance and finishing, especially in the fonts and themes. Fedora itself looks dated an old.
5. Worst KDE implementation ever.
6. It's boring to install proprietary stuff. Drivers, codecs, applications... And RPM Fusion isn't the answers for all your problems.
7. Their philosophy s*cks.
8. That's a personal issue: I'm fan of RPM distributions.
9. DNF seems to be slow. For upgrading, installing and removing software.
10. Most of my applications, especially those for recording doesn't work on Wayland.
11. SELinux is a huge problem on Fedora...

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-11-27Votes: 7

Very solid release reminded me of F22. We fell off but now we are back on track

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-11-24Votes: 4

Wanted to test Fedora for a long time and I recently managed to install it. I had an initial problem with failed booting but after restarting it I was able to boot it.
Its different from Debian and Arch based distributions so there is a bit of learning curve. I have to confess I did not like it immediately but after a few days of using it became easier to use it.
Fedora is definitely not for beginners in Linux but its good if you want to learn something new.

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Version: 29Rating: 1Date: 2018-11-21Votes: 0

Gave the LIVE version 29 a spin. Tried all desktop environments.

Cons:
Accessing the rpm and fusion repositories - a nightmare. It is slow. Other distros are faster.

One cannot play media or view media online without installing the appropriate plugins or gstreamer packages.

My out-of-box experience was a nightmare with this one. I felt like I went to test drive a car, but it was only a shell on 4 blocks. I needed to install the battery, tyres, seats etc.

After much searching, much dnf-ing etc, I am here thinking other distros never gave me this much headache.

I use Fedora 29, X86_64 with MATE Desktop on an HP 99480m (intel I5 CPU, w/16GB RAM)
Upgraded from Fedora 28, it was fast (relatively) seamless.
I have used it since it was released (almost).
Since many updates, but it is very impressive : very fast, stable.
The rpmfusion repos for Fedora 29 is excellent.
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So far, Fedora 29, seems to be a great release, perhaps the best Fedora I have seen in recent times.
So I am a bit surprised with the negative reviews, this may be with a different Desktop, perhaps (KDE?)
I have notice all distros are not equal when it comes to Desktop implementation.
My friends usually agree that Fedora MATE is a very good platform.
Consequently, if you post a negative review, could you indicate which configuration ?
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Version: 29Rating: 1Date: 2018-11-10Votes: 1

Slow as hell!

Full of Bugs!

This distro should never be fixed release, at least if it were rolling it could be fixed faster, actually there are no reasons to use it!

You want a good rpm distro? Opensuse!
You want a good Bleeding Edge? Arch
You want a good Fixed Release distro? Debian

And thats it, Fedora makes no sense and should disappear, its useless, full of bugs, not stable, not usable!

It frooze on 3 laptops here in my home, despite that had huge problems with different wireless cards and videocards....terrible!

This distro only exists to be used as testing platform for redhat....useless!

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Version: 29Rating: 4Date: 2018-11-09Votes: 0

I was very impressed with Fedora 29 KDE and had prepared an outstanding review with a rating of 9, only because I felt that it was somewhat slow to load or respond to opening applications. The resource utilization was extremely low compared to the GNOME version and other distros that I have used in the past, Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Manjaro, just to name a few.

While I was writing the review, I was trying to locate and install the codecs I typically use for video/audio production. I was disappointed to learn that they weren't available in the repositories nor were the tools/applications I typically use.

I decided to install a VM that has all the codecs and applications I use and was again disappointed to find that Fedora 29 does not support VirtualBox 5.2.

I continued to locate several other applications I use on a daily basis and came up empty handed. It was at this point that Fedora 29 was a show stopper for me.

I may revisit it later once the codec support and applications I use are available.

PROS
Much improved display manager handles scaling my 4k laptop dynamically while not scaling my 1080 external display. This was an issue in fedora 28. Granted I have to boot with nouveau.modeset=0 for my intel integrated graphics to even work.

Gnome 3.30.1 has better performance

CONS
None aside from docker repo for 29 not updated and being ignored by dnf
this is the vendors fault, not fedora

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Version: 29Rating: 5Date: 2018-11-07Votes: 0

Tried the lxqt version: I expected a solid and polished OS but was actually disappointed: Fedora lxqt was not only slow on my older PC but it did freeze regularly; one big problem was the software manager (dnf-dragora) which did not work at all and, therefore, was useless for me; also, I could not customize the lxqt desktop the way I wanted; there is not a settings center, which is strange. Not recommended.

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Version: 29Rating: 9Date: 2018-11-07Votes: 4

Great, time-proven distribution.

Pros:
- Bleeding-edge (BE), not quite as BE as the major rollers like Arch and Void. The developmental edition, Rawhide, is even more BE than these rollers. It was the first major distro to use Wayland by default.
- Rather stable for a distro with such new software.
- Large repositories, that include the cross distro package managers Flatpak and Snap.
- Packages can be made for it and distributed for free via Coprs and the OBS.
- Large community, e.g. atm there are 694 people in the #fedora IRC channel vs ~255 for openSUSE's #suse, means you're more likely to get free support if you have a query.
- Backed by the largest Linux company in the world, Red Hat.
- Package manager integrates fairly well with GNOME Software and KDE Discover.
- An easy-to-use installer.
- Comes with Flatpak pre-installed for easy application installation without root privileges.
- Has its own rather helpful magazine.
- Fairly out-of-the-box (OOTB) for a strictly open-source only distro.
- Several editions, including a Silverblue edition (that uses OSTree for package management).

Cons:
- Weird SSL certificate set up which can cause some irritations, e.g. OpenRA AppImages cannot connect to the forums by default, although with a little work this can be fixed.
- Strict on open-source, so if you need proprietary drivers you will not find it a completely OOTB experience. If the proprietary drivers you need is for a WiFi chip you depend on for internet this can make things tricky (as you need an internet connection in order to get these drivers from the third-party RPMFusion repo).
- Six monthly releases, means regular distro upgrades, with these upgrades requiring your PC to be unusable for an hour or so, during which the packages of the new distro release are installed. If this part of the process is interrupted (e.g. a power failure) your system may become damaged beyond repair.

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Version: rawhideRating: 7Date: 2018-11-06Votes: 0

Presently there's a bug (and has been one for a few days, at least) wherein the repositories aren't being updated in a way wherein end-users can access the updates, which is quite irritating and defeats the purpose of using a bleeding-edge edition of the distro.

I have found serious bugs (e.g. one wherein the only installed kernel I had was unbootable; bugs that made GNOME unusable too have occurred) in Rawhide in the past, but that is to be expected when you're using a developmental release of a distro.

Otherwise it's an interesting, out-of-the-box and innovative distro. It's what I use when I need/want something even more bleeding-edge than 'stable' rollers like Arch, Gentoo and Tumbleweed.

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Version: 29Rating: 4Date: 2018-11-05Votes: 2

KDE spin:

Bad implementation of Plasma DE, too many bugs, a lot of popups warning about bugs, Discover is not displaying the updating percentage per package

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Version: 29Rating: 10Date: 2018-11-04Votes: 9

Another great version. the 29 is easy to install and it runs very smoothly.
My two laptops are flying with this release.
Every piece of hardware, runs out of box.

speed is a great improvement: booting or dnf update...

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Version: 29Rating: 8Date: 2018-11-03Votes: 7

The base system is amazing. The distro is decently focused on security. However, when you try any of the spins, you realize it does not receive the same level of attention as the Workstation edition. Many glitches here and there, many crashes. Integration could be better.

Great distro. Uses dnf instead apt.
If you don't like workstation you can download the spins such as XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon, KDE....
Sometimes desktop effects can be a little annoying.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-10-09Votes: 7

Fedora 28 is a fantastic upgrade from the previous versions. With the addition of integrated 3rd party repositories, this distro is sure to grow in popularity for openly actively supporting the community properly, even if indirectly.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-10-08Votes: 2

I love Fedora LXDE edition 32bit looking forward to version 29

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-10-04Votes: 4

I try N distros but Fedora just work great, i cant wait for Fedora29

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Version: rawhideRating: 8Date: 2018-09-26Votes: 7

I have never tried a BETA version of any distro but Fedora 28 was just to bloated and never felt right for my workflow. So I took a chance and installed Fedora 29 BETA and was pleasantly surprised.

It still needs some fine tuning but the base is rock solid. The only thing that needs to be completed are the repos, misc admin tools and codec support.

It's running as a VM for now, but it recognized all my hardware and installed the guest additions during install, which was another pleasant surprise. I wish more distros would do all the heavy lifting for me like Fedora did.

I cant wait for the final release of 29! Good job and many thanks to Team Fedora!

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Version: 28Rating: 5Date: 2018-09-25Votes: 0

For me Fedora is mostly RHEL test bed, that sometimes taste bad (pun intended). It's try to be fixed short lived quite stable distro on the one hand, and cutting edge on the other. For example Wayland is still in bad shape - a lots of things just won't work - 4 years after it was released!!! If you like your Gnome3 crashing like young drivers in old BMW - fedora is way to go. KDE plasma works better on openSUSE. The selling point for some people might be the cloud images that are always in great shape.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-09-18Votes: 8

I was distro hopping between OpenSUSE, Manjaro, Ubuntu and Gentoo.
Fedora requires a bit of seexperience but you can configure it with your own taste.
It starts up quickly and Selinux gives me a security feeling even if it needs a lot of experience to understand it.
I also like the nice integration with Bugzilla; each time I have a problem I can automatically open a ticket and people from Redhat replies to any open bug.

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Version: 28Rating: 7Date: 2018-09-17Votes: 1

When Fedora shifted to Wayland I lost the use of my Wacom graphics tablet. As a photographer and digital artist that is catastrophic. I believe that was in version 26. It still doesn't work in version 28. Basically I have been forced to return to Windows !!! Fixing this doesn't seem to have a very big priority.

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Version: 28Rating: 5Date: 2018-09-16Votes: 0

It's a great OS. The main problem I have with Fedora 28, is that the OS takes close to 3-5 minutes too boot into a login screen. and another 3 minutes to load into the desktop. Also transferring files from one hdd to another still freezes the OS in general for -10 seconds. The new annoncement about adding more language fonts is nice and all. I think they should kick out Gnome 3 and go with KDE Plasma. Gnome seems to be the speed problem. Fedora team doesn't seem to care that the OS has insanely long boot times. Hey, lets add more fonts!!

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Version: 28Rating: 9Date: 2018-09-16Votes: 0

Using the KDE spin to great satisfaction on both my work (development) machine and personal computer which is basically also used primarily for development and some gaming and browsing etc.

Thumbs up, Fedora is rock solid and my distro of choice. No complaints.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-09-12Votes: 15

After 14 years of distro hopping I finally found my home for a while now. I would not call it a beginner friendly distribution at all, due to all of the minor tweaks it needs to really shine. Don't get me wrong it is foolproof out of the box but to really rock it needs knowledge and time to really fine tune. For every newcomer to Fedora I would highly recommend to check out the different forums about these:

All together it is a solid, stable bleeding edge distribution with massive support from the parent company, you don't really need to worry if it will still exist in 2 years time, or if they have got the knowledge base and resources to keep on top of the upcoming issues.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-09-08Votes: 0

It is difficult to define the work of these people and the dedication to make a distribution with this quality.
I definitely do not recommend new users, for a simple reason, when we do the installation and are ready to use the first visual impact is not very appealing, but with a little bit of configuration already gets pretty good.
For me it is preferable to be stable and perform well than being beautiful and full of bugs.
Although I use test repositories, the system works simply well and stable, I do not want to say that something can happen when performing some updates, but I guarantee that I do not even remember the last one I did have some kind of problem.

I would like to see Fedora with some kind of Software Center, with installation of drivers, some basic software that users use on a daily basis. This is for the novice user to get better and feel more comfortable.

keep up the good work !!!

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Version: 27Rating: 9Date: 2018-09-03Votes: 0

Using it for years in a virtual machine with KDE for web development. I nearly never have had any troubles. Works much better than my Kubuntu at home (okay, native, old machine). Lots of updates - as intended.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-09-03Votes: 29

Fedora 28 Xfce

Stable, safe, up-to-date, for daily use and productivity. I like MXLinux but not as easy and successful as Fedora. The only thing I blame Fedora Xfce for is dnfdragora which sometimes closes badly, I am forced to go through:
dnfdragora --exit

I enabled access to both the rpmfusion free and the nonfree repository

Enjoy!

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-08-18Votes: 7

Definitely a core linux distribution. A bit leading edge for long term stable requirements, but easy to operate, and very durable. Has rapid upgrades.
I use it for a home NAS, and Squid proxy.

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Version: 26Rating: 7Date: 2018-08-08Votes: 3

I last tried Fedora a while back. I never stuck with it long. There were always issues. Too bleeding edge for a production machine IMO.

~ Torin

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-08-04Votes: 12

I am purely a home desktop user and am not involved in any development activity
The untampered implementation of Gnome allows for easy customisation and addition of the extensions you wish.
The installer is hugely improved and I would suggest is the best in class.
Really nice Flatpak integration for the likes of Spotify, Slack or Skype
Up to date packages in the repos. and plenty of 3rd Party apps such as Chrome or Plex are available as .RPM files and installation is very simple.
If I was new to Linux I may suggest Ubuntu or Mint purely down to them offering an out of the box experience with no customisation needed but as soon as you get a release under your belt, come to Fedora.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-08-01Votes: 14

Pro:
- a great distro, that just works
- best suited for development and administration
- has the best GNOME implementation
- up to date packages all the time - including the Kernel version
- it is really stable, no issues with anything
- upgrading from one version to another is really flawless now
- you get to know the future of Red Hat

Con:
- none

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-07-23Votes: 7

Pros:
Boots extremely fast on Desktop. (CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x, GPU: AMD RX 580, 16 GB RAM)
Many different environment (spins) available for different aesthetic tastes. (I use Cinnamon myself).
'just works' out of the box but with very up to date repositories without sacrificing stability.
The more updated repositories really matters as a developer. and DNF makes it very simple to search and work with software from the repositories, as well as activating 'third party' repositories for non-free software (Steam, nvidia drivers etc...)
Related to RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) which means fully supporting RPM. This is very helpful since many software packages come in RPM or DEB.
Dnfdragora makes installing RPM packages painless and thoughtless for those times when you just want to install a software but not worry about any details. (Great for casual users/ non-tech users)
The community is exceptional to the max. Definitely one of the best and most friendly Linux and free software communities I've been in.
The customization is incredible and very open.

Cons:
More of a neutral con, but due to being an RPM system and not a DEB system like some of the more popular distributions, some software may be more difficult to find pre-packaged solutions. This makes it a little more of a challenge for people starting out for the first time. This doesn't happen often, but enough that it should be mentioned.
Again for less experienced users, a lot of the system is best used for/by developers or technical users, this is apparent in the very 'user designed' setups. Allowing such deep levels of customization means some 'hand-holding' is sacrificed. Learning the CLI is definitely recommended for this distribution, but not necessarily required for a casual user (someone who maybe just needs an office suite and access to a browser and general media).

Replaced Kubuntu with Fedora KDE and it's running great. It's nice not having to hunt and add a thousand PPAs just to get up-to-date software.

I really don't understand how people can mess up with Fedora so badly. As with any other bleeding-edge distro, you're not supposed to do anything before updating your newly-installed system; that's what I did, and I faced none of the bugs that the likes of Dedoimedo point out. Even MTP on Android is working fine, although I didn't try Samba.

I agree there's still a lot to be desired in the regression test/QA department, but if you can't do basic troubleshooting or lack common sense, you can't even run Windows. Maybe try an abacus or something.

The only bug that hasn't been solved yet is speech-dispatcher borking PA's output, but that's an easy fix: edit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and uncomment "DisableAutoSpawn" (or, if you actually need it, change AudioOutputMethod to anything but "pulse")

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Version: 28Rating: 9Date: 2018-07-16Votes: 0

I've found it easier to setup my development tools with Fedora. After all, that's its specialty. It doesn't try to be Ubuntu. That means less patching and hacking from the distributors, more up to date packages and 'pure' desktop environments.

On the bad side, due to constant changes, even simple functionality such as drag and drop, online accounts or multimedia codecs may break. Fedora won't show you the same level of concern with these kinds of problems as noob-friendly distros like Mint, Solus and Ubuntu do. You have to expect breakage and have a plan B (example, learning the CLI tool instead of the GUI).

Not only to you get an easy to use distro but cutting edge versions of packages and stability as well.

The Fedora community is the best out there.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-07-13Votes: 0

Everything works like a charm. I have no complaints until now. Perhaps it is a bit slow when booting otherwise it is perfect.It surprised me gratefully. I will continue with this distro for a while and I hope it was for a long time.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-07-09Votes: 0

I'm running Fedora Server 28 in my laptop. The Fedora was the best adaptation for my hardware (UEFI). I use the XFCE grafic ambient and I don't have what reclamate! The DNF and KVM QEMU (virtualization) also without reclamation!

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-07-08Votes: 0

Pretty good emacs bootloader
Pros:
-Doesn't have modified versions of packages in the repository. Always ships packages the way they were made. (including the kernel)
-Pretty stable. Haven't encountered any bugs after using it for a couple months
-Ships kernel updates
-Pretty decent sized repository. Isn't as small as, let's say, Void Linux's or Debian's repositories
-RPM backend for DNF, which allows developers to easily ship packages to distros like PCLinuxOS, openSUSE, Mageia, ect.
-DNF is really nice. After years of dealing with apt, apt-get, even dpkg, it's nice to use one singular command for doing things. Has only changed once (yum to dnf)
-Predictable release cycle
Cons:
-Eh, I don't use that much proprietary software but it'd be nice if they included the option to enable RPMFusion non-free in the installer. I do know there's apparently legal issues here but my point still stands. Can't blame them for it though
-DNF is slower than apt. Not by much though. I'm suspecting Python is the culprit here. They're moving away from Python so this soon will most likely not be an issue

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Version: 28Rating: 6Date: 2018-07-07Votes: 3

Some of the kernel updates kill the xfce installation. Keep a backup. Not very reliable!

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-07-03Votes: 4

I'm running Fedora 28 on both my home & work laptop, and everything has been smooth. I was kind of hesitant to install it on the work machine, mainly because of the unreliable reputation, but there has been no problems whatsoever. It seems that the bad rep is unjustified, at least on my case. Laptops used: Thinkpad T470s & HP Elitebook 840 G4.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-07-03Votes: 1

Been using Fedora and linux overall few months now. I really like how fedora and gnome are simple to use with only very basic apps installed by default. It has been most beginner friendly distro I have tried(others were OpenSUSE and Ubuntu) even though fedora 28 took it away a bit(removing root user password creating from installer.)
Can't really call any cons from new linux users point.

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Version: 28Rating: 9Date: 2018-07-02Votes: 4

Fedora is a professional class GNU/Linux distribution. Unlike its counterpart "Ubuntu," Fedora strives for a less flashy, more vanilla (GNOME) computing experience. Fedora is stable, fast, reliable, and an unparalleled experience for those wishing to escape proprietary ecosystems.

Like others have said, RPMFusion is a must for those proprietary applications you can live without (Spotify, Steam, PyCharm, etc.). Fedora/GNOME have made great advancements in simplifying the process by giving the user the option upon launching the Software application to enable these third party repositories. However, while rough around the edges your experience may vary with this automatic process.

I would not recommend Fedora for those that wish to use proprietary graphic drivers (Nvidia Blobs). This is do to both installation issues from either RPMFusion repository, or from Nvidia.

I would recommend Fedora for those that want to use mostly open source software and drivers (AMD(MESA)). The integration of the GNOME shell/desktop environment, flatpak, and GNOME applications are top notch and best in class on this GNU/Linux distribution.

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Version: 28Rating: 8Date: 2018-06-29Votes: 2

It's a good distro, but fedora should add RPMFusion by gnome software too. Everyone enable it when install fedora.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-06-25Votes: 5

This is by far one if not the most solid distro. This OS just works and works well with everything I have thrown at it. I would say this is enterprise class. If you don't want headaches from using these "bleeding edge" "rolling distros" this would be the distro to use. It just flat out works!

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Version: 28Rating: 6Date: 2018-06-18Votes: 5

I couldn't install NVIDIA drivers, even after enabling RPM fusion(a must have repository), also there's no driver manager in the Xfce Spin, I've installed it but it was not launching.

Playing videos using Firefox did not worked, HTML5 codec issues, you need to install codecs.

Xfce Spin is very ugly, looks like something from 20 years ago, Whisker Menu is not the default menu(it still gives that old menu like LXDE that doesn't have the search feature) and there's not even a volume icon on the default panel, you have to manually add to it.

Fedora is not easy to use and doesn't work out of the box, you need to make several tweaks to make it usable and this requires skill and time, a beginner will have a hard time figuring everything out.

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Version: 28Rating: 8Date: 2018-06-18Votes: 0

Clearly there is more work to be done Fedora hope version 29 shows some real improvements...

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Version: 28Rating: 9Date: 2018-06-15Votes: 3

The installer is top notch, I just don't like that the default config assigns to much disk to the swap but not enough for hibernation so if you have a lot of ram its just lost space.

The repositories are simply sad, there is very little software but that can be fixed with RPMFusion, COPR and Flatpak which is enabled and configured by default, and by using those sources you can basically have all the software ever made for Linux, kinda like AUR.

The default software selection is great, is quite bare and has no crap (outside of cheese maybe?) but no so bare that you have to install everything Arch-style. Also all the software comes together very nicely and it's instantly clear that it wasn't just hacked together. Particularly the Gnome implementation is very good.

The OS itself is quite stable, though some Kernel updates may be a little unstable but you can just select and use a older one if that's the case.

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Version: 28Rating: 9Date: 2018-06-03Votes: 6

Fedora is quite distant from being out of the box. This made me try some other distributions like Solus, Manjaro and Opensuse tumbleweeed.

However, for me, user who loves Gnome, none of these distros, even if they are of great quality, gave me all the speed to experience the vanguard software that Gnome likes, such as Flatpak, Wayland, Firefox-Wayland and CSD and Gnome-software.

In this version Fedora is solid.

But it continues with these negative points: it requires more configuration work (especially for non-open-source applications), a slow boot, an ugly grub and heavy repositories files.

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Version: 28Rating: 4Date: 2018-06-02Votes: 0

Years into systemd, and they still can't manage to stop things before a minute and a half? On top of that, LXQt default settings had 2x network manager tray icons. Why would I need or want two of them? The default KDE desktop (KDE's fault) can't be switched from folder mode on the desktop without cheesing up. I have tried nearly 70 distros from distrowatch's top 100 list and some that weren't on the top 100 list. Fedora has been unimpressive everytime I have tried it over the last six or seven years. I really feel that this project will never be great. Having said that, the install went flawless along with the first round of updates after the reboot. The ram usage is stupidly high almost 600MB for LXQt + Kwin. I am actually amazed that it's just about the same as it was years ago. I will not be trying this distro again.

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Version: 28Rating: 3Date: 2018-05-27Votes: 0

Tried using Gnome Desktop. Had some difficulties with installer- not very responsive to clicking on icons concerning partitions. Got it installed. Accepted user password on reboot but would not accept this password to upgrade installation- tried several times. Changed user password, this password for upgrade- this worked. Rebooted system and again could not enter it as it would not accept new user password several times. Had no problems with disk encryption password to gain access to start up process.

Have gone back to using Manjaro.

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Version: 28Rating: 9Date: 2018-05-27Votes: 7

Having been using Mint for many years I finally took the plunge and installed Fedora 28 Cinnamon edition. It works well - quick, easily customised and secure. Full disk encryption is supported

I found most software in the repos after enabling RPM Fusion and everything else I either manually installed RPM's or compiled myself. Nemo is 3.8.2 and is a lot slicker looking. Cinnamon is also nice and quick and very responsive. Fedora updates regularly and most of the software is pretty much cutting edge - the only two I manually compiled were GIMP to 2.1 and Krita to 4.0.1. Fedora helpfully included the latest version of GEGL so compiling GIMP was very easy. I manually added the latest mainline kernel (currently 4.17.0-0.rc6) and it works well. wine-3.8 (Staging) installs very easily and again a lot of the libraries required are already in the repos. Everything just works.

If you are running the Cinnamon edition you will probably want to add Gnome terminal as the right click open in terminal option won't work in Nemo. I also added Gnome's Software Center as it can be easier to find software than DNFdragora. It also made installing codecs easier and it did tend to find other updates that DNFdragora had missed. DNFdragora is better at finding libraries although it could do with some work - the columns are constantly off the screen and you have to drag them back, you can't press enter to start a search, it's slow to start, it gets in a cufuddle sometimes and won't show you what is installed forcing you to close and reopen and clicking on the sort buttons don't work. After you get used to the foibles its very similar to synaptic.

Goodbye Manjaro. I liked MXLinux but Fedora Xfce surpassed them for normal daily use and productivity. All my entourage (for the most part, newcomers of Windows) swear by Fedora stable and in addition very up to date! more secure! and if one day you want to use the giant RedHat for professional reasons, you will be functional in a less time ;) it is not for nothing that many many developers and other professionals use Fedora, they are not fooled because it is a guarantee of stability. So people coming from Windows, even the newer.. FEDORA. Thanks.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-05-24Votes: 9

I've been in a time capsule for the last ten years running RH 9 (Shrike) and Suse 8.2 which continued to run well on my old boxes from the same time period.

I inherited a much more recent box and decided to make the HUGE jump to Fedora 28 Workstation which installed from the Internet without a single burp. Booted fine.

My first reaction was the same as for any other upgrader from an ancient distro : "Damn! Nothing but bun, where's meat? Java and Eclipse and a lot of fluff!"

Then I discovered dnf from reading up, and my reaction was, "Whew! Nice!"

gcc, g++ extension, postgresql, even Midnight Commander, all installed over the internet like a walk in the park.

I checked rpmfind site to make a list of all the additional packages I wanted for postgresql (like a server!) and they all installed nicely.

Everything is solid so far. I like it!

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Version: 28Rating: 9Date: 2018-05-22Votes: 0

The hardware of my laptop only have UEFI and Secure Boot and the Fedora Server is the O.S. Linux was the best run in this machine. I didn' t have problems at instalation configurations.

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Version: 28Rating: 4Date: 2018-05-21Votes: 0

As a desktop Linux OS, Fedora 28 is an embarassing joke. There is a derth of applications that are readily available for Debian-based distros like Ubuntu & Mint. Applications that a desktop user might use, like Libreoffice, aren't installed by default. You might say "well, they're going for a lean install." Well, then why are un-needed applications and drivers installed, & why is the installation .iso 1.8 GB? For 1.8 GB you'd think you'd get some common applications, like videolan or gimp installed. At least it includes some old-skool applicatoins that many modern distros miss, like traceroute & ping. There's no ability to install proprietary video drivers, again you have to old-skool manually install them. In 2018. HELLO Red Hat/Fedora, self-immolating dogma are over! You can give users a choice. & Package management is a similar joke. I installed the KDE spin (KDE is superior. Sorry, I love you Gnome & XFCE guys, but you just can't do what KDE does & nothing competes with Dolphin, Kfind, etc) "Discover" crashes constantly, & it took me 30 minutes to figure out nobody has an updated guide for Fedora 28 & yumext doesn't exist. All of these issues in a "desktop OS?" On the plus side, it's really solid so far, but you'd think for one of the few companies making money in Linux, they'd do at least a fair job of making a distro.

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Version: 27Rating: 8Date: 2018-05-20Votes: 1

I've always come back to Fedora and used it for more than 10 years. Other distros have failed to install or been quite unstable or sluggish. If something is broken in Fedora, it will usually be fixed in a week or two (if it's a critical issue it's fixed sooner).

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-05-20Votes: 0

I have repeatedly been on Distrowatch saying that my distribution hoping days were over, but I have continued to be plagued with by crashes, freezes, or problems with past distributions; and problems with software updates or installation. I have avoided Fedora due to the higher memory usage compared with some Debian or Arch derivatives.

Fedora 28 installed without problem, and I can tell that it is stable and solid. My old laptop does not suffer from the fan over driving; a major concern and problem with many other distributions, including some "lightweight" ones. The display graphics are excellent and Firefox boots up more quickly than in Manjaro, MX-17, or other distributions I have used. My printer and scanner are set up and were easy to do, given that Fedora uses rpm files.

I don't feel the need to (again) try out the "latest" distribution that appears on Distrowatch. It is also reassuring to know that Fedora won't disappear or become dormant, as it is not run by 2-3 people as a hobby or sideline.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-05-19Votes: 2

Perfect balance of the latest releases and stability

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-05-17Votes: 11

Tried Manjaro...broke...loaded up Mint didn't like my printer. Went back to Fedora just WORKS! You'll need to spend some time after the installation for additional functionality but it is worth it.

Nce, simple, efficient.
Wayland/mutter/gnome is really improving in the good direction.
Tthis is my first try at Fedora and I'm very happy to have installed it on my PC.

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Version: 28Rating: 1Date: 2018-05-15Votes: 0

Not a patch on Linux Mint KDE 18.3. Software Center Discover crash most time I try to use it. Can't get Dragon Player to play Video files. Have to find a more friendly HDE Disco when Linux Mint KDE is no more.

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Version: 27Rating: 9Date: 2018-05-15Votes: 2

Hi, I do like Fedora an awful lot. On my desktop, it's my main distro; sure i keep trying others like Arch/ Manjaro, Ubuntu, and Debian, But I keep going back to Fedora. I like the way how everything in the distro just comes together. I like the package manager, and their structure layout. I give it a nine out of 10, because my absolute favorite is MacOSX on a MBP, but my second favorite is Fedora, beating out FreeBSD which I have used for a quite awhile now. One other thing, debian is supposed to be the distro that has great hardware detection, but yet again, Fedora wins in this category (at least for me, Fedora recognizes all of my hardware, and just runs "out of the box").

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Version: 28Rating: 9Date: 2018-05-14Votes: 1

To me Fedora and Ubuntu are the forces behind Linux. Ubuntu failed to drive my printer. Concearning Fedora, it is like Slackware. You are never bored. I love using it.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-05-14Votes: 0

Fedora is awesome, although it's bleeding it runs very stable. I love it - not considering another Linux distro since Fedora 18 (5 years ago) for both my laptop and desktop computers.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-05-11Votes: 16

I've always held a high opinion of Fedora, but version 28 has impressed me even more than past releases. The first thing that stood out to me was a change in the installation procedure. You no longer set a user or root password until after the installation is completed. When you restart the computer you set the user name and password as you enter Fedora for the first time. I found it interesting that I did not get to set the root password. This is something I had to take care of at the command line. You just handle it as you would if you wish to change the root password which works pretty much the same in any Linux distribution.

There are several new features. One I will mention is that you now have the option to enable several repositories with a single mouse click. In the past, you had to take care of this on your own. Fedora has in the past chosen not to make this option available because of their strong belief about only providing open source software. This still has to be initiated by the user, but it now much easier to do than in the past.

As has been the case in recent releases, I believe Fedora continues to provide one of the better implementations of GNOME. Even though Fedora is not as user friendly as some of the other options, I think it is worth the time you will spend learning to use it. It's an exciting OS that's a lot of fun to use.

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Version: 28Rating: 4Date: 2018-05-11Votes: 0

Pros:

- up to date packages

- cool blue theme

- I don't know about your processors but mine works much more quieter and temperatures are lower in comparison with Manjaro, to mention one example. I remember versions 24 and 5 where my cpu worked very noisy.

- friendly enough to handle it by a normal man

Cons:

- unstable, I've already lost my WL driver after kernel update

- KDE implementation is the worst one I've ever seen in my whole life: there are only icon shapes in system
settings, in section often used, it's the first thing you see after entering the system settings.

- no codecs and drivers by default. Many things changed in linux world and nowadays it's a standard to
install it autoamtically at system installation. This is an archaic attitude from XX century.

- everythin is in beta shape, user are meant to be guinea pigs like someone wisely mentioned in one the
reviews

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Version: 27Rating: 9Date: 2018-05-10Votes: 0

Default install through anaconda is too bloated for some time.

Somehow, there should more options to select what you really want (rewriting install script perhaps?). Otherwise, in overall exceptionally good and stable system if you can tune it so.
Offers whatever you want: from server to developers workstation.

Most liked option: Custom installation. :)

Best tool: dnf.

And comment to all Gnomers - forget it, install MATE. Less memory eaten, same feeling than in version down. Of course xfce eats the smallest amount, but's not gnomy :). BTW, I started on KDE and is all about memory, like Gnome.

And not to forget: you may also update FC27 through dnf, but this is not the recommended option, since there are new repositories in FC28. FC26 to FC27 goes very smoothly, tested myself.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-05-09Votes: 4

Great new fantastic release!!! Very well with my laptop Dell Inspirion 5545. Without any bugs. Fedora graphics looks much better, than with Antergos.

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Version: 28Rating: 10Date: 2018-05-08Votes: 15

Just to comment on the silly post about not being able to put icons on the desktop in Fedora... - That is GNOME's default behaviour, so blame them. It is now possible to enable icons on desktop. Probably the easiest way is to use the gnome tweak tool, and tick the "Have file manager handle the desktop"...

However, I propose a much better solution - forget GNOME and install XFCE. That is what I do, or if you do not like XFCE, try Cinnamon or some other desktop manager.

Anyway, Fedora 28 is like every other Fedora - fantastic.

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Version: 28Rating: 1Date: 2018-05-08Votes: 0

Installation step does not work on my PC 32 bit (live Workstation and live Xfce spin) .After months this is really sad !!.

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Version: 28Rating: 1Date: 2018-05-06Votes: 0

It is not allowed in Fedora 28 to put icons on desktop. This is a thing we cannot do without. Consequently Fedora 28 is a pure senseless toy.

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Version: 27Rating: 8Date: 2018-05-05Votes: 0

optimal package management (thanks to DNF). Excellent support from the community.

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Version: 27Rating: 9Date: 2018-05-05Votes: 1

Fabulous!! The most advanced OS out there... and yet, improvable.

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Version: 28Rating: 3Date: 2018-05-04Votes: 2

I found nothing stable on Fedora 28. I tried LXDE and XFCE. Both had trouble with keyboards and particularly dragora repo didn't know where it was and what its job was. It thought on ALL occasions, someone else is using it already and consequently closed ! I was NOT able to install a single program.
Kernel panic ! And syncing failed ! What else is there to come ??